Plus: Shocker! Nice Words About James Patterson!
Say what you want about his factory approach to fiction or the quality of his work, there’s no denying the incredible success of author James Patterson who has sold over 260 million books worldwide. A phenomenal number of books sold translates to a phenomenal number of readers and it’s gratifying to see the author use his fame in order to promote literacy.
ReadKiddoRead.com is Patterson’s website, dedicated to “making kids readers for life,” a certainly admirable aim. The site is broken up into suggested books for age groups between 0-10, with “Illustrated Books,” “Transitional Books,” “Page Turners,” and “Advanced Readers” spotlighted. A quick look at the “Advanced Readers” page shows just how broad the selections are, with books ranging from Jd Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye to Carl Hiaasen’s Chomp and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book...
Say what you want about his factory approach to fiction or the quality of his work, there’s no denying the incredible success of author James Patterson who has sold over 260 million books worldwide. A phenomenal number of books sold translates to a phenomenal number of readers and it’s gratifying to see the author use his fame in order to promote literacy.
ReadKiddoRead.com is Patterson’s website, dedicated to “making kids readers for life,” a certainly admirable aim. The site is broken up into suggested books for age groups between 0-10, with “Illustrated Books,” “Transitional Books,” “Page Turners,” and “Advanced Readers” spotlighted. A quick look at the “Advanced Readers” page shows just how broad the selections are, with books ranging from Jd Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye to Carl Hiaasen’s Chomp and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book...
- 6/4/2012
- by Cameron Ashley
- Boomtron
Opens at New York.s Quad Cinema & Los Angeles. Laemmle Theatres on May 13
First Run Features will release Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird fifty years after the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on May 4, 1961.This documentary film by Mary McDonagh Murphy explores the phenomenon To Kill a Mockingbird became and unravels some of the mysteries around the novelist.s life, including why she never published again.
Harper Lee.s first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was instantly a beloved classic. The film version, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, won a trio of Academy Awards. Luminaries like Tom Brokaw list the novel among their all-time favorite books, and Oprah Winfrey calls it .our national novel.. It is still required reading in most classrooms and sells nearly a million copies every year.many more than The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby...
First Run Features will release Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird fifty years after the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on May 4, 1961.This documentary film by Mary McDonagh Murphy explores the phenomenon To Kill a Mockingbird became and unravels some of the mysteries around the novelist.s life, including why she never published again.
Harper Lee.s first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was instantly a beloved classic. The film version, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, won a trio of Academy Awards. Luminaries like Tom Brokaw list the novel among their all-time favorite books, and Oprah Winfrey calls it .our national novel.. It is still required reading in most classrooms and sells nearly a million copies every year.many more than The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby...
- 3/17/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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